Direction for making of Syrups, S{c. 355 



till it be almost cold, and strain it through a woollen cloth, let- 

 ting it run out ut leisure, without pressing : To every pint ot this 

 decoction add one pound of sugar, and boil it over the fire till it 

 come to a svrnp, which vou may know, if you now and theii cool 

 a little of it with a spoon : scum it all the while it boils, and when 

 it is sufficiently boiled, whilst it is hot, stra n it agam through a 

 woollen cloth, but press it not. Thus you have the syrup per- 

 fected. Ill, 



3diy, Syrupi made of iuice, are usually made of such herbs as 

 are full of juice, and indeed thev are better made into a syrup this 

 way than any other ; the operation is thus: Having beaten the 

 herb in a stone mortar, with a wooden jjestle, press out the juice 

 and clarify it, as you are taught before in the juices ; then let the 

 juice boiraway till about a quarter of it be consumed : to a pint 

 of this add a pound of sugar, and boil it to a syrup, always 

 scamming it, and when it is boiled enough, strain it through a 

 woollen cloth, as we taught you before, and keep it lor your 



use. 



3. If you make a syrup of roots that are any thing hard, as 

 Parsley, Fennel, and Grass-roots, &c. when you have bruised 

 them,' lay thoin in steep some time in that water which you in- 

 tend to boil them in, hot, so will the virtue the better come 

 out. 



4. Keep your syrups either in glasses or stone pots, and stop 

 them not with cork or bladder, unless you would have the 

 glass break, and the syrup lost, only bind paper about the 

 mouth. 



5. All syrups, if well made, continue a year with some advan- 

 tage ; yet such as are made by infusion, keep shortest, 



CHAP. III. Of Juleps. 



JULEPS were first invented, as I suppose, in Arabia; and 

 my reason is, because the word .Tulep is an Arabic word. 



1. It signifies only a pleasant potion, as is vulgarly used by 

 such as are sick, and want help, or such as are in health, and 

 want no money to quench thirst. 



3 Now-a-day it is commonly used, 



1. To prepare the body for purgation. 



2. To open obstructions and the pores. 



3. To digest tough humours. 



4. To qualify hot distempers, &:c. 



4. Simple Juleps, (for I have nothing to say to compounds 

 here) are thus made : Take a pint of such distilled water, as con- 

 duces to the cure of your distemper, which this treatise wilt 

 plentifully furnish you with, to which add two ounces of syrup, 

 conducing to the same effect ; I shall give you rules for it in the 

 next chapter) mix them together, and drink a draught of it at 



